Edward Snowden isn’t a hero. He’s a traitor

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He’s not just made the security services’ job of combating dictatorships more difficult — he’s fled to an enemy regime

Rogue intelligence agencies stalk cyberspace, beyond any form of legal or political control. They ruthlessly collect our most intimate data and exploit it for their masters’ political ends. Only the brave dare challenge them.

That is the worldview of the “Snowdenistas” — the followers of Edward Snowden, a former contractor for America’s National Security Agency who has now sought refuge in Russia. To prove their point, they have leaked secrets swiped by Snowden from the NSA’s servers last year, in the biggest breach in Western intelligence history. Mostly in the form of internal presentation slides, these illustrate how the NSA and